I've often found myself staring agape, stunned at the lack of awareness as to the irony emanating from the same people who give such power to language with thei

I've often found myself staring agape, stunned at the lack of awareness as to the irony emanating from the same people who give such power to language with their abject refusal to entertain 'context', 'intent' or even the sheer mutability language has shown to be capable of over the thousands of years of human discourse. Same thing I said a few weeks ago in a discussion over Github wholesale blanking out a repository because it used the word 'retard' in the dictionary sense of impeding the rate of progress. If that makes me sexist I guess I'll just have to take it "like a man"?